{"id":105285,"date":"2024-04-23T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-charged-after-allegedly-crashing-car-into-birthday-party-killing-2-young-kids\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:00:28","slug":"woman-charged-after-allegedly-crashing-car-into-birthday-party-killing-2-young-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-charged-after-allegedly-crashing-car-into-birthday-party-killing-2-young-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged after allegedly crashing car into birthday party, killing 2 young kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-23\/WXYZ_042324_MarshellaChidester.PNG\" alt><figcaption>WXYZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEWPORT, Mich.) &#8212; A woman is facing second-degree murder charges after she allegedly drove into a child&#8217;s birthday party in Michigan, killing two children and injuring several others, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Marshella Chidester, 66, allegedly struck a building at the Swan Creek Boat Club in Newport Saturday afternoon, and her car came to rest about 25 feet inside the building, according to the sheriff and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother were killed, Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffery Yorkey said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims&#8217; mother and 11-year-old brother suffered serious injuries, Yorkey said.<\/p>\n<p>A 14-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman also suffered serious injuries, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Childester is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of operating while intoxicated causing death and four counts of operating while intoxicated causing serious injury, Yorkey said.<\/p>\n<p>Chidester was arraigned on Tuesday and is due to return to court on April 30.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Victoria Arancio contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WXYZ (NEWPORT, Mich.) &#8212; A woman is facing second-degree murder charges after she allegedly drove into a child&#8217;s birthday party in Michigan, killing two children and injuring several others, officials said. Marshella Chidester, 66, allegedly struck a building at the Swan Creek Boat Club in Newport Saturday afternoon, and her<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-charged-after-allegedly-crashing-car-into-birthday-party-killing-2-young-kids\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}